(http://www.wilkie-collins.info/books_rogue.htm) This is an 1856 novella written by Wilkie Collins and published serially. The novel spends several years with Frank Softly, the titular rogue and someone from a middle-class, more or less well-to-do family, who goes from being a political … [Read more]
The rhetoric of feminism with its emphasis on resistance, rebellion, and revolution created an illusion of militancy and radicalism…
...that masked the fact that feminism was in no way a challenge or a threat to capitalist patriarchy. This is among the concluding statements to bell hooks's 1981 text Ain't I a Woman, which takes the question asked by Sojourner Truth in front of a group of white feminists in 1851. By asking this … [Read more]
What does the world need to become perfect?
German cover: Strange translation choice abounds here - I read this as "Thoughts about Christa T," but the novel does discuss the word "Sehnsucht" a few times as well. So who knows! (Photo: https://www.amazon.com/Nachdenken-Uber-Christa-T-German/dp/3630610315) An odd little book from an East … [Read more]
Rennie can see what she is now: she’s an object of negotiation.
(Photo:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160728.Bodily_Harm) There's a blurb on the back of my copy from Marilyn French, a more or less contemporary of Margaret Atwood's, who says of this book "Romance and adventure by a female Graham Greene at his peak" and at first I thought it was dismissive … [Read more]